While Tai is serving a 2 year mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, all of his emails and photos will be posted here so that others can see the work that is being done, learn a little bit more about his faith and share in this time of growth.

Monday, October 10, 2016

Weekly

Hi Everyone!

This week was really busy, and we had a lot of really coolmiracles while finding. Today we are going to be playing some beachvolleyball, it should be fun. To kick things off, we stopped by ateaching appointment with a lady named Pearl early so we could getsome finding in. Pearl's neighborhood is really rough, but the roughneighborhoods always have some really good people in them. We ran intothis guy named Marcus and his two nephews, Jordan and Shaq... Lolanyway right off the bat he recognized us as missionaries, which madeus really happy, and we had a really good conversation about his past,and the restoration, and it was really cool. There was a point in ourdiscussion where a car drove by behind us, and Jordan threw some signsat whoever was in the car, and we thought someone was going to startshooting. Thankfully nothing happened 😊 we were able to get Marcus'sinfo, gave him a Book of Mormon and invited him to read and pray aboutit, and we got a picture with them! Super cool.

That next evening (Wednesday) we were doing some 'referralfinding' in the southern portion of our area, and we stopped by areferral who ended up not being home. Walking back to the car, I justfelt like we needed to talk to somebody. So I stopped and asked mycompanion, "you ready to build your faith Elder?" So we said a prayerand started to walk. We didn't really have any particular direction,but I knew that the Lord was leading us on. About five minutes later,we came across this lady named Sarah, Who had a Mexican accent butcould speak English very well. After speaking with her, she offered tofeed us dinner, and that we could come back and share a message. Wemust've looked a little confused, because she explained that in theBible, if servants of the Lord come to your home, and you take themin, you will be blessed. She said that if we ever wanted a meal, tojust show up and she would feed us. We are going back this week toteach her, and if she feeds us we will be very grateful. Right afterthat, we stopped by another referral who also wasn't home. We saidanother prayer and started to walk. A few minutes later my companionpicked a house to knock, where we met Willis. He grew up Baptist, butwas open to the idea of the restoration. We got his info, scheduled atime to come back, and then invited him to read from the Book ofMormon. ALL OF THIS HAPPENED WITHIN THE HOUR. WHAAAAAAAAT??!??!

That's about it for this week. I love you all, thank you for yourprayers. I can feel them everyday.Love,Elder Fa'afetai PhippsSent from the Lord's hastening device

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Illinois, Chicago Mission

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Glenview, Il. 60025

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